Clothing-seam-pressing machine



April 14, 1925. 1,533,685,

' F. BAILER ET AL CLOTHING SEAM PRESSING MACHINE F. w. BAILEI Q ET ALCLOTHING SEAM PRESSING MACHINE Filed Oct. 21, 1920 3 Sheets-Sheet 2Im/enfors April 14, 1925.

F. W. BAILER ET AL CLOTHING SEAM PRESSING MACHINE Filed Oct. 21, i920 3Sheets-Sheet :5

Patented Apr. 14, 1925.

UNITED FRANK W. BAI'L'ER AND MAX WEINBEBG, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

CLOTHINGSEAM-PRESSING MACHINE.

Application filed October 2 1920. Serial no. ns/n7.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, FnaNir V. Bnrnnn and l dAX lVnnnniao, citizens ofthe United States, and residents of St. Louis, Missouri, have inventedcertain new and useful 1911- provements in a Clothing-SeanrPressingMachine, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in clothing seam pressingmachine, and has for its object a mechanism which is conveniently placedon a table, the same provided with a pressing arm or table on which thegarment is placed, a heated roller arranged to be placed on the seam, aseam spreader toot conveniently located for spreading the seam, drivingrollers for advancing the garnient under the heating roller and a meansfor raising the heating roller from the garment so that the same can beshifted on the arm or table.

The essential feature of our invention is to construct a machine havingpower driven driving rollers, an'ironing roller-which is properly heatedby any means of heat supply, the same arranged to be raised and loweredfor the advancing of the garment and a spreader foot whereby the seam isspread apart so as to be pressed flatly between the rollers.

Figure 1, is a side elevation of our invention with parts broken awayand in section showing the general structure.

Fig. 2, is a front view of the same.

Fig. 3, is a central sectional view of the rollers made use of incarrying out our invention.

Fig. d, is a cross sectional Viewot the same.

Fig. 5, is a detail perspective view of the spreader toot shown inapplication spread? ing a garment or seam.

Fig. 6, is a top plan view of our invention.

Fig. 7, is a detail front view of a cam mechanism made use of forraising and low ering the rear spreader foot.

Fig. 8, is a sectional View of the same.

F 9, is a detail perspective view of a portion of the supporting :arrn,showing the le or arm of a garment placed over the same in readiness forpressing the seam.

Referring; to the drawings in detail 10 indicates the general frame ofour invention the same consisting of a supporting body portion 11, theupper end thereof -tern1inating into an extending arm 12 and attached tothe body portion 11 and ata convenient location beneath the arm 1:2 is asupporting arm or ironing table 13. These parts inthe form ofconstruction are generally formed integral.

On the arm '12 is formed a head 1% in which is supported a rod 15, onthe lower end of which'is supported a sitar ated roller support 16 inwhich is aiiially mounted a hollow roller 17. In the top of the, headand around the rod 16 is plac'ed'a screw-threaded adjusting sleeve 18,the bottom end of which communicates with the upper end of a spring 19locate around the rod The bottom end of the spring 19 is supporte'd onthe collar 20 attached to the rod 15 and the tendency of said spring isto normally hold the roller 17 in contact with the garment placedbeneath the same. To the upper projeeting end of the rod 15 is pivotallvattached operating arm 21, which straddles the rod 15 by means of. itsbifurcated end 22. This rod is supported on the arm 12 by bifurcatedsupport 23., the free end of the operating rod 21 being formed into aneye 2st to which is attached one end of a chain 25. This chain passesdown through the hollow body portion 11, and its opposite end isattached tdthc toot lever 26., conveniently located on the floor andWhen the foot lever is operated it will raise the rod 15 and the roller17 sufficiently to permit a garment to be placed in position under thesame.

On the head 14 is likewise supported a rod 27, on the bottom end ofwhich is located a seam spreading head 28 with which the seam is firstbrought in contact and as the same is advanced forward under the rollerit spreads the same from a vertical to a horizontal position asillustrated in Fig. 5. a

This rod is supported in a bracket 29 attached to the front end of thehead and around the rod and within the bracket is a spring 30 whichrests upon a collar 31 at tached to the rod and the tension of thespring normally holds the foot 28 in contact with the table.

On this rod is attached a collar provided with a projection 32, thisprojection being); located in alignment with a. projection formed on thebifurcated roller support and when the projection 83 contacts with theprojection roller is raised upwardly this 32 and raises the spreaderfoot 28 away from the table.

In order to obtain additional pressure upon the foot 28 we provide afoot operating mechanism which consists of a lever 34: pivotallyattached to the bracket 35 formed on the head 14, said bracket looselycontacting with the upper portion of the rod 27. Its opposite free endis connected to the rod 36 which extends downwardly and is attached to afoot lever 37, and by pressing downwardly on the lever with the foot itpulls down on the rod and additional pressure can be obtained.

To the rear of the head 14 is likewise located a rod 88, and around thisrod is also placed a spring 39 the tension of which normally holds thefoot 4.0 of this rod in contact with the table, and in order to holdthis foot in elevated position as shown by solid lines in Fig. 1, weprovide a cam mechanism 41, the same being attached to the frame of thehead by means of a cap screw 42, said cam mechanism being provided witha cam slot 4-3, in which projects a pin ll extending from the rod 38,and when the cam is in horizontal position as shown in F 7, the foot isdown and when the operating handle of the cam is pressed down and in avertical position it brings the pin l to its highest position therebyraising the foot 40 and is held in such position until the cam is againreleased from the vertical "to a horizontal position.

In the arm or ironing table 13 is located a shaft 46. This shaft issupported in suitable bearings 4:7, and on the same is located a drivesheave 48 over which a belt i9 is placed and said belt may be attachedto any sort of power supply as a shaft as indicated by the numeral 50 orto the ordinary driving mechanism or said shaft may be driven directfrom the motor, if so desired.

On this shaftete is placed a pair of worms 51 which are arranged in meshwith worm gears 52 mounted in trunnions 53 formed on driving rollers 54,which are preferably two in number, the periphery of said rollersoperating through openings formed in the upper surface of'the ironingtable and are arranged to project slightly above the surface thereof andsaid rollers are so positioned as to permit the heating roller tocontact with both of said rollers, these rollers by means of the wormmechanism being driven in the same direction.

The hollow heating or ironing roller 17 is supported in the bifurcatedsupporting frame 16 by sleeves 55 and in these sleeves is supported apipe 56 which is provided with a. plurality of small holes 57, throughwhich gas may pass and when ignited will form small flames for heatingsaid roller. The gas is admitted to the pipe through a flexibleconnection 58. If found desirable this roller may be heated by steam orelectricity as found most applicable.

The operation of our invention is as follows:

In the construction of clothing after the legs, sleeves and sections ofthe garment are stitched together and when the same is formed there areprojecting ends which normally project outwardly. In order that theseedges may be flattened down to form a flat seam the garment is placed onthe ironing table and in the event of a sleeve or trouser leg it isslipped over the table. The operator exerting pressure on the foot lever26 raises the ironing roller together with the presser foot; when soraised, the

garment is placed on the table 13 and when pressure is released theroller and foot will contact with the garment, the foot forming the seamas indicated in Fig. 5, flattening down the edges, the rollers have atendency to advance the garment beneath the heating roller. When theentire. seam has passed under the roller and is ironed flat the operatorthen elevates the roller .and presser foot, then turns the garment tobring the next or opposite seam between the rollers, this operationbeing accomplished while the garment is on the table, then the mechanismis reversed and the inner presser foot lowered so as to flatten out theseam and when drawing the same off of the table the roller will performits ironing function. In Fig. 9, we show an illustration of the tablewith the garment leg or arm in position on the same. 7

Having fully described our invention what we claim is:

1. A clothing seam pressing machine comprising a frame, a stationaryoverhanging head, a garment supporting arm formed integral with andextending from the frame, rollers supported in said arm,

and a heated ironing roller located above the arm and supported in theoverhanging head to contact with a garment for ironing out the seam,substantially as specified.

2. A machine of the character described comprising a frame, a garmentsupporting arm projecting therefrom, rollers mounted V as specified.

3. A machine of the character described comprising a frame, having asupporting over-hanging head, an arm projecting from the frame and inalignment with the over-hanging head, a pair of power driven rollerslocated in the arm, a spring com pressed heated ironing roller supportedin the ovei lianging head and arranged to contact with the periphery ofboth driving rollers, means for controlling the pressure of the ironingroller, a presser toot located in the front and to the rear of saidroller, and means for regulating the pressure of the feet on thegarment, substantially as specified.

4. A machine of the character described comprising a frame, the upperend terminating into an arm, a head formed on the end of said arm, aspring actuated rod located in said head, an ironing roller supported bythe lower end of said rod, a heat generator located in said roller, anoperating lever connected to said rod by which the same may be raisedand lowered, an arm projecting from the frame on which the garment to bepressed is placed and power driven rollers located in the arm on whichthe garment is supported during the ironing process, substantially asspecified.

5. A machine of the character described comprising a frame, an armforming a part thereof, said arm acting as an ironing table around whichthe garment to be pressed is placed, a rotatable'heating mecha nismsupported by the frame and permitted to contact with the garment forpressing and flattening the seam of the garment without making animprint on the remainder of the garment, substantially as specitied.

6. A clot-hing seam pressing machine comprising a frame constituting anintegral upper arm provided with an overhanging head; a garmentsupporting arm formed integral with and extending from the frame; ashaft supported in said arm; worms mounted on said shaft; a pair ofrollers located in the a m in mesh with the Worms on said shaft; theperiphery of said rollers projecting slightly through the top of saidarm; a rod vertically mounted in the overhanging head; an ironing rollersupported by said rod; a spring mechanism for normally holding theironing roller against the periphery of two lower rollers; a levermechanism communicating with the vertical rod by the manipulation ofwhich the ironing roller may be raised out of contact with the lowerrollers; a presser foot positioned on each side of the ironing rol- "lerand supported by the overhanging head, said foot designed'to spread theseam and flatten out the same before entering the three rollers, thegarment supporting arm being so arranged as to permit the leg of atrouser or a sleeve of a coat to pass there over, substantially asspecified 7. A clothing seam pressing machine comprising a head havingtwo horizontal portions, the lower horizontal portion being free andunobstructed so that a completely sewed garment may be insertedthereover, rollers mounted in said horizontal portions, means forheating at least one of said rollers, and means for placing said rollersin operation simultaneously.

In testimony whereof, we have signed our names to this specification, inpresence of two subscribing witnesses.

, FRANK W. BAILER.

MAX WEINBERG. Witnesses:

ALFRED A. EIoKs, BLANCHE L. EIoKs.

